Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

10.

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

11.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

13.

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

15.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

17.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

18.

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

24.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

25.

Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

30.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

31.

'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

33.

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

36.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

37.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

42.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

46.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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I know myself, but that is all.